The lead item in my Bird column this week, titled "SS IGNORANT," is about 2006 Republican gubernatorial candidate Mike Harris and his flirtation with white supremacy. Read the article for all the gritty details. I didn't have room in the column for the photos of Harris, screenshots of his NewSaxon profile, and other visual evidence of his crossover to the dark side. So I'm posting some here for your perusal.

For the record, Harris denied he's a neo-Nazi. He also denied knowing that NewSaxon, "an online community for whites by whites," is sponsored by the National Socialist Movement. He took down his NewSaxon account shortly after I confronted him with it. But I have the screensave shown above.

As detailed in the column, Harris is an associate of Mesa neo-Nazi J.T. Ready. He told me they've known each other since he met the Ernst Roehm of the East Valley at an anti-immigration event in 2005. He also appeared with Ready in a video from an anti-Obama rally earlier this year. And he got a ride from J.T. Ready to a National Socialist Movement protest in Riverside, California that occurred in October.

Prof. Levin's footage of the Riverside rally: Harris is in the back, with white flex-cuffs dangling